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+LibreSSL is a fork of OpenSSL 1.0.1g developed by the OpenBSD project.
+Our goal is to modernize the codebase, improve security, and apply best
+practice development processes from OpenBSD.
+
+*********************************************************************
+NOTE! This contains libtls so the standalone libtls package should be
+removed before building and installing libressl.
+*********************************************************************
+
+Compatibility with OpenSSL:
+
+LibreSSL is API compatible with OpenSSL 1.0.1, but does not yet include
+all new APIs from OpenSSL 1.0.2 and later. LibreSSL also includes APIs
+not yet present in OpenSSL. The current common API subset is OpenSSL
+1.0.1.
+
+LibreSSL is not ABI compatible with any release of OpenSSL, or
+necessarily earlier releases of LibreSSL. You will need to relink your
+programs to LibreSSL in order to use it, just as in moving between major
+versions of OpenSSL. LibreSSL's installed library version numbers are
+incremented to account for ABI and API changes.
+
+Compatibility with other operating systems:
+
+While primarily developed on and taking advantage of APIs available on
+OpenBSD, the LibreSSL portable project attempts to provide working
+alternatives for other operating systems, and assists with improving
+OS-native implementations where possible.
+
+At the time of this writing, LibreSSL is known to build and work on:
+
+* Linux (kernel 3.17 or later recommended)
+* FreeBSD (tested with 9.2 and later)
+* NetBSD (7.0 or later recommended)
+* HP-UX (11i)
+* Solaris (11 and later preferred)
+* Mac OS X (tested with 10.8 and later)
+* AIX (5.3 and later)
+
+LibreSSL also supports the following Windows environments:
+* Microsoft Windows (Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008r2 or later, x86 and
+ x64)
+* Wine (32-bit and 64-bit)
+* Mingw-w64, Cygwin, and Visual Studio
+
+Please report bugs either to the public libressl@openbsd.org mailing
+list, or to the github
+
+Severe vulnerabilities or bugs requiring coordination with OpenSSL can
+be sent to the core team at libressl-security@openbsd.org.